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Since being diagnosed in June and being completely gluten-free, I have gained 8 pounds. This is enough to make many of my clothes too tight to wear. HELP!
This seems the height of unfairness: my diet is severely restricted from things I love, yet instead of losing, I gain! The nutritionist said I should be encouraged that I was gaining - that it indicated my celia were healing and absorbing nutrients. Easy for her to say .... each morning in the closet I begin the Great Search for something to wear.
Can anyone relate? Does this level off or will I lose some weight eventually? I admit that extreme fatigue has limited some of my physical activity, so this may be playing a part. I am an active person who walks the golf course (with a push-cart) three times a week and attends exercise classes 3/week. I am worn out after 9 holes these days - very depressing. It seems a vicious circle.

I feel your pain - literally!
For the past 6 months I have not knowingly ingested gluten, but have on occasion had all the old symptoms in spades. This usually happens after eating at a friend's home, even when everything was prepared gluten-free. I feel it must be coming from cross-contamination of pots, pans, utensils, work surfaces, etc.
We ate our Thanksgiving meal with friends at their home; I had no pumpkin or pecan pie because the friend who brought them used wheat flour but made a fruit dessert just for me - sigh. That night I was sick; not over the top but had cramping and spent a good deal of time in the bathroom. I felt like a real martyr; if I was going to be sick anyway, maybe I should have eaten the pie! Would I have been sicker??

I was diagnosed in June, 2012 as Celiac through a blood test and follow-up biopsy. These were done in Lexington, KY by a young female GI to whom I will be eternally grateful. I have suffered for years and seen multiple GI's who never tested for Celiac. Now I am in Arizona and recently saw a GI doc at Mayo Clinic. This doc told me there was no need to do blood work as I was already diagnosed, and the antigen numbers from a blood test would give no valuable information. When diagnosed my blood count was over 100 (normal is less than 4); six weeks after being gluten-free it was 75, a positive sign, I thought. Now that it has been 5 months, I had hoped to see that my numbers were way down, a further sign that I was healing. Do any of you have doctors who track your blood count?

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